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Intel needs to build its own iPad, iPhone

7/19/2010 11:08:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Intel is wasting precious time waiting for its "partners" to build the equivalent of an iPad and iPhone.

In the wake of Intel's hiring of a former Palm and Apple executive Mike Bell, Intel should short-circuit the ugly process of watching customers like Hewlett-Packard and Acer prattle about Intel-based tablets, then do nothing.

Friday's announcement stated that Bell "in his new role...will lead a team with the charter to build breakthrough smartphone reference designs with the explicit intent of accelerating Intel architecture into the market." A reference design--essentially a product blueprint for customers--will do little for seeding Intel-based designs in the brave new markets for smartphones and tablets.

In these markets, Intel does not carry the clout (potential for big revenue streams) as it does in PCs. (Remember the MID?) United Kingdom-based ARM does, however. Though a tiny chip company by comparison, it is surrounded by a satellite of big, muscular chip manufacturers (not unlike Intel) such as Samsung, Texas Instruments, and Qualcomm, who have big customers--Apple, Motorola, and RIM, to name a few. In tablets and smartphones, Intel is just another chipmaker--and not seen as competitive, to boot.

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Nokia Kinetic Concept Declines Calls Using Playful Flicks

7/19/2010 11:08:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


Designer Jeremy Hopkins, perhaps taking a cue from those inflatable clown punching bags that would always right themselves thanks to a special weight, has designed the Nokia Kinetic to do pretty much the exact same thing.

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F.T.Island's Lee Hong Ki sings in Chinese

7/19/2010 11:07:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

The Korean drama, “You’re Beautiful” will soon air in Taiwan on ETTV. Lee Hong Ki, who is part of the cast, is also the lead vocal of F.T. Island. Thus, Lee Hong Ki decides to re-sing the drama's theme song, “Still (As Ever)” in Chinese, with lyrics by Amber Kuo.

Amber got the inspiration to write the Chinese lyrics for the song after watching the drama portraying the unrequited love story. The Chinese version of the song is titled, “牽著妳的手” (Holding Your Hand). Lee Hong Ki comments, “It’s my first time singing in Chinese. It’s so hard.” Last time when Lee Hong Ki visited Taiwan in March, his record company specially arranged for Lee Hong Ki to film the music video with the Taiwanese version of "Julie" (Julie is the name of his pet dog in the drama).

The full MV will be broadcasted on Channel [V] at 9pm.

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Zune Pass for UK gets briefly teased, priced?

7/19/2010 11:07:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


If the above picture is to be believed, it looks like Microsoft's Zune Pass is gearing up to make its UK debut. An across-the-pond tipster via LiveSide apparently stumbled upon (and was able to successfully score the 14-day trial) a Subscription page with pricing tiers. In addition to the tryout period, there were also options for a £8.99 (about $13.74) one-month pass and £26.97 / $41.23 for three. Further details are just barely hinted at in the sidebar, but if it's anything like the US progenitor, we're looking at an all-you-can download music service and ten DRM-free MP3s each month, playable on Windows, Xbox 360 (soon), Zune devices (still not available outside US), and Windows Phone 7. We know Microsoft is planning to move its "challenging" music service into every country its phones will venture, but that little tidbit doesn't absolve this image of scrutiny. Try as we might, our UK editors are unable to find this screen anywhere. According to the original tipster, even though he has access to the trial, he still can't use it. We'll keep digging and will let you know what we find.

Verizon's LTE rollout is imminent, computers updated for 4G SIM cards

7/19/2010 11:06:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


We just got some alleged (but very convincing) internal documents on Verizon's 4G plans, and it's mostly stuff we've already heard -- 5-12Mbps down, aircards before smartphones, and plans to roll out in 30 cities in 2010. That said, documents dated this week show the company's still on track to serve up 100 million connections by the end of the year, and a pair of independent tipsters have just sent us pics of Verizon computers ready and waiting for those precious LTE SIM cards. Furthermore, the docs also claim that the planned LTE isn't just fast, it's got a lag-destroying 30ms latency too, and fans of wider wireless computing can expect 4G tablets of some sort in 2011 as well.

'Inception' earns dreamy reception with $60.4M

7/19/2010 12:29:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Leonardo DiCaprio and Christopher Nolan's "Inception" is anything but a sleeper as the thriller opened big with $60.4 million and a No. 1 finish at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The Warner Bros. action tale about a team that sneaks into people's dreams is DiCaprio's biggest opening weekend, topping his previous best of $41.1 million for last winter's "Shutter Island."

"Inception" falls far short of director Christopher Nolan's best, though. Nolan is the man who directed the Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight," which opened over the same weekend two years ago with a record $158.4 million.

Warner Bros. has carved out a niche with this particular mid-July weekend. The studio followed "The Dark Knight" with a $77.8 million opening for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" over the same weekend last year.

"We like this spot. Not to sound superstitious, but stay away from this weekend. I own it," said Dan Fellman, head of distribution for Warner Bros.

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No 'get out of jail free' card for Lohan

7/19/2010 12:28:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Lindsay's new lawyer, Robert Shapiro, made it clear to the troubled starlet that she'd get no 'get out of jail free' card.

The troubled starlet recently checked in at Pickford Lofts, a rehab treatment center that Shapiro started after the death of his son Brent from a drug overdose

“Ms. Lohan is suffering from a disease that I am all too familiar with,” he said. “Hopefully I can be of assistance.”

Before he took on the role of Lohan’s lawyer, he told the actress that he would not be appealing her jail sentence.

Shapiro has represented a number of celebrities and was a member of the “dream team” that defended O.J. Simpson

Lindsay Lohan is set to begin her 90 day prison sentence on Tuesday. Once she’s out of jail, Lindsay has to take part in a three-month long rehabilitation process.

Rep: Brutal Oksana Pic "True and Accurate" ; Mel Gibson's Ex Tired of Seeing Him Painted as 'Heartless, Abusive Monster'

7/19/2010 12:28:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

A rep for Oksana Grigorieva is slamming reports that a brutal image of the singer with chipped front teeth has been altered.

"The photo released by RadarOnline.com is 'true and accurate' and real," Grigorieva's spokesman Stephen Jaffe tells Entertainment Tonight. "It was not doctored by Oksana or anyone associated with her.

"As a former photo analyst, I can say that I see no credible evidence of any alterations or 'doctoring' of the photograph as some have asserted," Jaffe continues. "The reports that it was doctored are simply false."

The photo shows Grigorieva, 40, with two damaged upper front teeth allegedly after a heated fight with Mel Gibson, with whom she is engaged in an ugly custody dispute over their 8-1/2 month-old daughter, Lucia.

In an UsMagazine.com poll conducted Friday, 67% of readers said they believed Grigorieva's injuries were authentic.

Experts who have examined the photo, however, tell TMZ it is inconsistent with being punched it the face. TMZ also claims that "law enforcement is investigating the scenario that the damage to the veneers could have been self-inflicted."

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As Facebook Users Die, Ghosts Reach Out

7/19/2010 12:27:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Courtney Purvin got a shock when she visited Facebook last month. The site was suggesting that she get back in touch with an old family friend who played piano at her wedding four years ago.


The friend had died in April.

“It kind of freaked me out a bit,” she said. “It was like he was coming back from the dead.”

Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, knows a lot about its roughly 500 million members. Its software is quick to offer helpful nudges about things like imminent birthdays and friends you have not contacted in a while. But the company has had trouble automating the task of figuring out when one of its users has died.

That can lead to some disturbing or just plain weird moments for Facebook users as the site keeps on shuffling a dead friend through its social algorithms.

Facebook says it has been grappling with how to handle the ghosts in its machine but acknowledges that it has not found a good solution.

“It’s a very sensitive topic,” said Meredith Chin, a company spokeswoman, “and, of course, seeing deceased friends pop up can be painful.” Given the site’s size, “and people passing away every day, we’re never going to be perfect at catching it,” she added.

James E. Katz, a professor of communications at Rutgers University, said the company was experiencing “a coming-of-age problem.”

“So many of Facebook’s early users were young, and death was rare and unduly tragic,” Mr. Katz said.

Now, people over 65 are adopting Facebook at a faster pace than any other age group, with 6.5 million signing up in May alone, three times as many as in May 2009, according to the research firm comScore. People over 65, of course, also have the country’s highest mortality rate, so the problem is only going to get worse.

Tamu Townsend, a 37-year-old technical writer in Montreal, said she regularly received prompts to connect with acquaintances and friends who had died.

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Ming Dao applies "life-saving" CPR on duck

7/19/2010 12:27:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

The upcoming idol drama "Zhong Wu Yan" will premiere on TTV and SETTV on July 25th, and the drama's actor Xiao Xuan Xuan has stolen the spotlight. This Xiao Xuan Xian, who is actually a duck, not only swaggers with attention onto the bed of drama's lead actress Cheryl Yang, but also gets CPR from the drama's lead actor Ming Dao.

Since "Fated to Love You" and its dog Baby Ji, idol dramas have started a trend of using animals, such as Anthony from "Easy Fortune Happy Life", Lulu from "Lucky Days", Kang Kang from "Ni Ya Da", and Xiang Cai from "Tian Xia Fu Mu Xin". Nowdays, it's "Zhong Wu Yan" and Xiao Xiao Xuan, and unlike the other animals who are dogs, this one is a handsome white duck!

Xiao Xuan Xuan, who came from a family of farmers in Yilan, Taiwan, is the medium of love used between Cheryl Yang and Ming Dao's characters in the drama. When Xiao Xuan Xuan first arrived, the staff raised it at the the third floor of the outdoor stairs of SETTV's building and labeled it as the newest signed artist, arousing the focus of the staff.

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